{"id":198,"date":"2011-02-12T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-02-12T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T12:00:44","slug":"is-it-safe-to-post-a-design-project-on-kickstarter-before-getting-a-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Is it safe to post a design project on Kickstarter before getting a patent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stupid design\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1311\/1188525870_a4d4aeef9d_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/89114959@N00\/1188525870\">the jof<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by Eric E<\/i>: Is it safe to post a design project on Kickstarter before getting a patent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have designed a certain invention that I would like to patent soon but don&#8217;t have the funding. Would it be stupid to go on Kickstarter.com and post this project before I get legal rights to it so I could then get the proper funding to patent it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by ron_mexico<\/i><br \/>In the U.S., publication of your invention on a website will start a one-year clock in which to file for patent protection.  After the one-year clock has past, you will lose any rights to the invention.<\/p>\n<p>This one year grace period is limited to the U.S. and a few other countries.  Most foreign countries have an absolute bar.  That is, once you disclose your invention on a website, you will immediately lose any rights to your invention in those countries.<\/p>\n<p>See the link below for more information.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ipr-helpdesk.org\/documents\/GracePeriodinventionLaw_0000004514_00.xml.html<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by the jof Question by Eric E: Is it safe to post a design project on Kickstarter before getting a patent? I have designed a certain invention that I would like to patent soon but don&#8217;t have the funding. Would it be stupid to go on Kickstarter.com and post this project before I get legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[660,11,661,659,662,658,172,85],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-design","tag-before","tag-design","tag-getting","tag-kickstarter","tag-patent","tag-post","tag-project","tag-safe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}